From: Chiyuan Zhang <pluskid@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T21:14:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and rdebug

It seems to be recursion level too deep. Have you tried to
run ruby in gdb and get a backtrace when the program faulted?
gdb /usr/bin/ruby test.rb

2008/3/31, barjunk <barjunk@attglobal.net>:
> I'm running a ruby script like so:
>
>  ruby test.rb
>
>  and because it has some problems it eventually crashes with
>
>  'stack level too deep (SystemStackError)'.
>
>  This is a problem I'm looking into, however, if I run the program like
>  this:
>
>  rdebug test.rb
>
>  It doesn't crash in the same place.  In fact, I haven't been able to
>  get it to crash at all.
>
>  What sort of things could cause this to take place?  This happens in
>  1.8.4 and the latest 1.8.6.
>
>  I haven't finished trying to find the reason why my ruby program
>  crashes in the first place, but it just seems odd that it wouldn't
>  also crash when using rdebug.
>
>  Ideas, suggestions?
>
>  Mike B.
>
>